On November 29, 2017, the Solicitor General filed a brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) reversing the agency’s position and arguin...
Industry Update
SEC Announces Cybersecurity Enforcement Initiatives
SEC Chairman Issues Statement on Cybersecurity
ESG in Private Equity: What Every GP Needs to Know About Public Pension...
On July 7, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated parts of the District Court’s class certification order in In re Petrobras Securities Litigation (“P...
On June 26, 2017, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
split down the middle
over whether the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appointment of Administrative ...
Decision Yesterday and Two Denials of Certiorari Today Decline to Apply American Pipe Tolling to Statutes of Repose Under Both the ’33 Act and ’34 Act
On June 26, 2017, the United St...
Articles & Books
The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Alternative Investment Funds 2017, 5th Edition
In May 2014, the Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) at the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) gave a speech to the Private Fund C...
The Tenth and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal have come to opposite conclusions in response to constitutional challenges to the Securities Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) appoin...
On January 4, the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California issued a decision in a case brought by shareholders against Volkswagen arising out of the well-public...
On December 5, 2016 the PCAOB announced that it had settled charges against Brazil-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes for a record $8 million civil penalty. PCAOB News...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Issues Notices of Intent to Issue Orders for Approved FINRA and MSRB Pay-to-Play Rules
SEC Adopts Amendments to Form ADV and Advisers Act Rules
Litigat...
